Creating and extending hairpins

Another very common staff line in Sibelius is a hairpin.…If you've never heard that term, hairpins are the Sibelian word for crescendos…and decrescendo markings.…Similar to slurs, hairpin should be entered and extended with quick keys and…should rarely ever be handled with the mouse.…There are two correct ways to enter a hairpin, just like a slur.…You can select a note where the hairpin is going to begin and then use a…quick key and space it out from there, or you can make a passage selection and…use a quick key, and the hairpin will appear below the passage.…

So let's try both of those.…First selecting a note and we'll zoom in so we can see this.…There's a note and the quick key letter for hairpin, you probably guessed it, is H. …So the letter H and there's the hairpin up there on the screen.…Here is our little handle and it's already highlighted and ready to go and all…we have to do of course is just use the Spacebar.…So Spacebar is going to extend the hairpin as far as we like. Once again if you…

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5/11/2011

In this course, author Jenny Amaya covers the ins and outs of creating, arranging, and publishing professional-looking scores using Avid's popular music notation software. Beginning with the basics of score creation and note entry, the course explains how to interface with a MIDI keyboard; edit note durations and pitches; and incorporate lyrics, tempo markings, and other text elements. Also included are tutorials on formatting your score and dynamic parts.